Neil Hopcroft

“A Danish vendor said Thursday that it has developed a system to create Bluetooth-enabled cows”

Some extensions to Service Discovery Protocol needed here, I fear, maybe a milking profile, beef profile, or perhaps an all-in-one bovine profile…

…and while we’re on the subject of cows, which came first Bovril or Bovril?

Categories: Memories.

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sciamachy

2005-03-19 at 08:07

The place came first. It’s like Fray Bentos, which is a place in Uruguay iirc. Uruguay’s main industry is raising, slaughtering and processing cattle into beef.

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- neilh
  
  2005-03-19 at 12:41
  
  Cool….so how did the place get its name?
  
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  - sciamachy
    
    2005-03-19 at 15:14
    
    Honestly, I have no idea. I guess that’d be one for the Spanish/Portuguese speakers – I do know Bentos translates as blessed in Portuguese though, so I suspect it’s something similar to Buenos Aires or suchlike.
    
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    - neilh
      
      2005-03-19 at 15:29
      
      It seemed unlikely that the town would be named after the product, but stranger things have happened.
      
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ex_lark_asc

2005-03-19 at 09:23

OK, what I want to know is why you were typing ‘bovril’ into Multimap.

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- neilh
  
  2005-03-19 at 12:43
  
  I was running quite a lucrative cattle train there in Railroad Tycoon and wondered if it was a real place.
  
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neilh

2005-03-19 at 18:53

But they’re sweets, thats different….somehow…

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